For What Reason War?

by | Mar 16, 2025 | Newsletters

By Ray DiLorenzo

Europe is in a bad way. They are struggling with cost-of-living issues, crime, housing shortages, stagnant economies, and a serious migrant crisis they brought upon themselves…what were they thinking? The massive migrant influx from the Middle East and Africa has practically destroyed their collective cultures, and countries like the UK and France are quickly becoming unrecognizable. They also suffer from liberal think. They ponder the possibility of having to fight a war with Russia while being carbon neutral.

But the greatest issue facing Europe is their tendency toward suicide…their misplaced bravado, their affinity for large-scale wars. They still hold onto ancient feuds and territorial claims from hundreds of years ago, which they believe still need to be resolved.

George Washington warned us of getting involved in permanent alliances with foreign nations, especially Europe. Our first president wanted us instead to rely on temporary alliances to meet emergencies. Napoleon formed alliances with Russia, Denmark, Sweden, and, at times, Prussia. During the Battle of Waterloo, Prussian General Blucher saved Wellington’s bacon with the timely appearance of his army on the battlefield in support of the British. It proved crucial for Wellington’s victory. Any historian would know why, as one of Wellington’s officers cried out late in the battle, “Blucher’s in the woods.”

They changed sides, like changing underwear. When a nation within the alliance gets attacked, they all jump in. From this one 3-day battle, both sides lost more than 60,000 men. That’s more than the total U.S. casualties in the Vietnam War. Europe lost between 2.5 and 3.5 million dead during the Napoleonic Wars, both military and civilian. That is with a world population of only 1 billion people. Not the 8 billion + we have now. Let that sink in.

Ukraine collaborated with Nazi Germany during WW2 and was occupied for much of the war. Western Ukraine had little loyalty toward the Soviet Union. They saw what Stalin had done in his killing of several million Ukrainians.

“Hitler, The Liberator”

in Ukrainian

Many Ukrainian nationalists hoped that cooperation with the Nazis would enable them to establish an independent state.

Poland was ripe for the picking by both Stalin and Hitler. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west. On September 17, 1939, the Soviet Union attacked Poland from the east, bringing together both Ukrainians and Poles under the Soviet banner.

About two years later, in June of 1941, Germany invaded Russia, and the rest is history.

It would be naive to deny Ukraine’s anti-semetic history and their collaboration with the Nazis and their support of neo-Nazi groups in some parts of Ukraine today.

Before WW2, Ukraine had one of the largest Jewish populations in Europe, about 2.7 million. When Hitler took control of Kiev in 1941, Ukraine celebrated Hitler as a liberator. About 34,000 Jews were later rounded up and marched to fields outside the city and shot. More and more Jews were taken to the site and added to the mass grave, about 100,000 total. It became known as the “Holocaust By Bullets.”

As of late, Ukraine has had to pass antisemitic laws to address demonstrations of bigotry like swastika-charged vandalism and Nazi marches in Kyiv (Kiev) and other cities.

A glut of statues of Ukrainian leaders has recently appeared with well-known legacies of being Nazi proxies. One of the most famous is Stepan Bandera, who’s honored with several dozen monuments and street names. HIs followers acted as local militia for the SS.

Azov’s patch

Ukraine has an entire brigade of neo-Nazis called the 12th Special Operations Brigade “Azov” based in Mariupol. It was founded as the Azov Battalion in May 2014, but they were incorporated into the National Guard several months later.

Neo-Nazi groups have gained some political power recently, even sending some to the Ukraine Parliament, including one who called the Holocaust a “bright period” in human history.

Yes, Ukraine has a Nazi problem, but it is restricted to certain areas, mostly in Eastern Ukraine, like the Donetsk, Mariupol, and Luhansk regions. It was those areas that asked Putin to come in. They are now occupied by Russia. I believe that Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if Trump were in office. Biden’s weakness gave Putin the opportunity, and he took it.

Admittedly, I do not understand Trump’s resumption of aid to Ukraine. It believe it shows Putin the weakness of the ceasefire. I say that not having any access to the intelligence that produced that decision.

As of this writing, Putin has agreed in principle to the ceasefire proposed by Trump, but says he has a host of terms and conditions that are still to be determined to ensure a lasting peace.

Putin has said he wants to de-Nazify and demilitarize Ukraine. Fine. But Putin must appear to not have even the slightest appearance of an imperialist if he wants to end this war.

An intriguing fact about this plight is that Europe has so many female leaders who want war. Are they trying to prove how tough they are? Do they have the slightest idea of what war brings? Have they accounted for the potential for a nuclear exchange and its consequences? Are they under the delusion that Russia won’t drop a few bombs on some major cities? For what? Ukraine? It’s been said that General Curtis LeMay frequently adopted an aggressive approach to any possible confrontation because he had a fear of looking weak. With women in many high offices, that fear could be real. At what cost? Grow up, people.

There is an entity behind Europe’s desire for war. I believe it is a globalist push. They want to weaken Russia and are willing to use the West to do it, regardless of the potential loss of life. In fact, they would welcome it as it aligns with their goals of controlling populations and subjugating nation-states. That is who they are.

Europe is in dire need of not war, but of maturing gracefully with the knowledge and wisdom earned from a long history of conflict.